A Cloudy Lesson English Writing based on a

A Cloudy Lesson English – Writing based on a film study Diary and Instructions

01 st February 2021 LO: To be able to design and describe a new weather machine.

Watch the film A Cloudy Lesson on Vimeo

You need your weather maker / weather machine design from yesterday’s lesson Today we are going to write instructions for how to use our your weather maker / weather machine. It is your invention, your design and no one else knows how to use it. . YET! You have got sheet 9 a and 10 a as a guide to help you.

Let’s recap on the features of instructions

Independent task – on the sheet Use the instruction sheet to help you to write a set of instructions for how to use your weather maker / weather machine. Remember to be very clear about each step. You might wat to include adverbs do we need to do it slowly / quickly / carefully?

Caterpillar -Shoes English – Writing based on a film study Non Chronological Report

2 nd February 2021 LO: To discuss and respond to a film stimulus (inference and deduction).

Watch the film – Caterpillar Shoes (7 mins) Caterpillar Shoes We are now going to answer some questions about the film.

Question time. . . 1. Which shoes did the caterpillar give to the woodlouse? 2. How did the caterpillar feel after he gave the spider her shoes and how do you know? 3. What reasons did the beetle give for liking her new shoes? 4. What did the snail want to do after receiving his shoe? 5. Who did caterpillar give his last shoe to?

Independent task – on the sheet Please email to Mrs Rowe You are going to record your responses to the film on the sheet. You have seven questions to answer. The link to the film is on the year 2 webpage so you can watch it as many times as you like to help with some of your answers.

3 rd February 2021 LO: To be able to gather vocabulary for a detailed character description.

Watch the film and list all the animals from the film on your white boards. Caterpillar Shoes

Did you get them all? • • • Caterpillar Woodlouse Spider Fly Worm Grasshopper Beetle Stick insect Snail Flea

Collecting vocabulary • Today we will be collecting vocabulary to describe the characters from the film. When we describe we need to use our adjectives to create expanded noun phrases, for example, purple spider. • We are going to describe the appearance of the character (adjectives). • We are going to describe how the character moves (verbs).

Example of collecting vocabulary. . .

Independent task – on the sheet Please email to Mrs Rowe • You are going to choose 2 characters from the story Caterpillar shoes. (Caterpillar, Woodlouse, Spider, Fly, Worm, Grasshopper, Beetle, Stick insect, Snail, Flea). • In the square box you are going to draw your character. • In the top and bottom box you need to write about your chosen characters movement – Remember you need a verb, e. g. spins webs. • In the three middle boxes you need to describe your character, describe their eyes, legs and body. Remember you need adjectives, e. g. purple, furry body.

4 th February 2021 LO: To be able to describe a character.

Let’s look at the verb choices here. . . • Can you show me how to spin a web? • Now can you show me how to spin a web gracefully? • What type of word is gracefully? • How did adding the word gracefully change our action?

Verb and adverb choices. . . • Can you jump in the air? • Now can you jump in the air slowly? • Now an you jump n the air quickly? • What type of words are slowly and quickly? • How does adding adverbs change our actions?

Writing a character description. . . • Today we will be using our collected vocabulary from yesterday to write a character description.

Character description example. . . Verbs Expanded noun phrases Adverbs Simile Exclamation sentence

Independent task – In jotters Please email to Mrs Rowe • Use your plans from yesterday and choose 1 of your two animals which you gathered vocabulary for. • Turn your notes on from your plans into sentences in your jotters o create a character description. • - Remember I am looking for. . . expanded noun phrases (adjectives) Verbs (actions) Adverbs (describe how the action was done) • Challenge – can you include a simile? • Challenge 2 – Maybe you could write an exclamation sentence!

5 th February 2021 LO: To use drama to understand remember the sequence of a story.

Do you remember the story? • Can you write down or quick draw the animals in order without any prompts? - 5 minute task

Did you get them all? Were they in the right order? • • • Caterpillar Woodlouse Spider Fly Worm Grasshopper Beetle Stick insect Snail Flea

Let’s watch the story again. . . Caterpillar Shoes

Story map example. . .

Independent task – on the sheet Please email • Retell to Mrs Rowe the story of Caterpillar shoes drawing the events on the story map. • Caterpillar – meets animal – gives shoes – meets next animal – gives shoes etc. • Keep you pictures small or you won’t fit it all on. • Use arrows to show what comes next. • Watch the video again to help you get it all in the correct order.

6 th February 2021 LO: To be able to recount the events of a story.

Story map from yesterday. . . • This story map tells us the order of the story. Today we are going to write a small section of the story.

Example of the beginning of the story. . . • Can we see different sentence openers? • Can we see conjunctions (and, but, so, because)? • Can we see time conjunctions (first, next, then, after that)? • Can we see expanded noun phrases (adjectives) • Can we see adverbs (ly words)? • Can we see a simile? • Can we see an exclamation sentence?

Helpful word mats. . . Go to the year 2 webpage at: Year 2 – Canon Popham C of E Primary Academy (vox-cms. com) Scroll down to the overview of learning and teaching input presentations You will see the sections maths, reading, writing Under the writing there are helpful word mat resources for when you are writing

Independent task – in your jotters Please email to Mrs Rowe • Retell the story in the correct order, use your story maps to help you remember the order. • You need to include detail – don’t just write Caterpillar met the woodlouse. Describe the woodlouse, for example Caterpillar met the small, black Woodlouse. • Use different sentence openers, don’t always begin with Caterpillar. You could start with On his walk. . . / Along the way. . . / On his journey he met. . . • Use conjunctions to join your sentences – and, but, because • You might include time connective first, next, then, after that • You might include adverbs • Helpful sheets have been put on the year 2 webpage

7 th February 2021 LO: To identify and understand the features of a non-chronological report.

Non - chronological reports. . . A non-chronological report is a piece of text that isn’t written in time order. They tend to be non-fiction, and they give information on subjects or events.

Let’s look at the features of a non-chronological report.

Technical language. . . • Technical language are words written in bold hey stand out in the text and usually can be found in a glossary at the end of a non fiction book, in a glossary. • We will learn more about this in Key Stage 2.

Independent task – on your sheets Answers will be uploaded to the webpage at 12 pm • Find and tick off all the features you can find in your winter non-chronological report.

8 th February 2021 LO: To be able to research and retrieve information for a nonchronological report.

Research. . . • Today we will be researching animals so that we can write our own non-chronological reports. • We will use our research to complete a plan for our non-chronological reports.

How do we research? First we need some information to read. This can be from a sheet or we can use the internet to find information out. Here I have a sheet all about Mini-beasts, this sheet is all about a snail – I can now fill in the name box with snail. The next box on the plan says appearance. We are not writing sentences just helpful words. Let’s read about the snails appearance and choose some word for our plan. Now we will do the same for movement, diet, habitat, interesting fact. If we can’t find the information on our sheet we can use the internet Kiddle - visual search engine for kids

In your packs. . .

Independent task – on the sheet Please email your work to Mrs Rowe • Choose your animal – Polar ear or Penguin. • Research facts about your chosen animal to complete the boxes on your research plan - Use the information sheets in your pack and / or use the internet

9 th February 2021 LO: To begin writing a nonchronological report.

Non-chronological report - introduction • Today we are going to be writing the introduction to our nonchronological report.

Example of an introduction. . . There are only 4 sentences. They tell us a little bit about Minibeasts but not too much detail. It tells the reader to read on.

Independent task – on your sheet Please email your work to Mrs Rowe • Write a title for your non-chronological report. • Write an introduction to your non-chronological report. Remember. . . - Does it say what the text will be about? - Does it make you want to read more? - Does it tell the reader some information but not give away too much? • Draw a picture of your animal in the square box on your non-chronological report template.

Day 10 February 2021 LO: To be able to write a nonchronological report.

Writing the rest of the report. . . • Yesterday you wrote your title, an introduction and drew a picture of your animal (Polar Bear or Penguin) • Today we are going to finish the report. We are going to write three sections. Each one needs to have a subheading. • On our research plans we have 4 different areas of research –Appearance, Movement, Diet, Habitat. Choose the 3 you would like to include in your report – put a star next to the boxes

Writing our non-chronological report. . . • First we need to write our sub headings. • Let’s write our three subheadings in the boxes ready for our independent task. • (You put a star next to the three you wanted to do)

Writing our non-chronological report. . . • Now we have the sub headings we can write our sentences on to our on. Chronological Report. • To do this we look at the words – our notes – we have written on our plan and turn them into a sentence. • Now we write our sentence on the report under the correct heading.

Independent task – on the sheet Please email your work to Mrs Rowe • You are going to write your information on your Non-Chronological Report today. • We have put the sub-headings on now you need to turn your notes into sentences. • We don’t have much room so you might only be able to writ one or two sentences. • You can use the back of the sheet if you need more room but remember to re-write the sub-heading so we know what your sentences are telling us about.